Sometimes one fix might break something else that is more important than what was broken in the first place. I think of having this board inside a CNC machine for instance and the custom-written software stops running just because the IRQ table was redone and there's no PnP in some of that software, I'll tell you.

So, I am off for the hunt to the original bog-standard bios... Wish me luck, it's almost 20 years old...

We hate rut, but we fear change.
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